I have all Diion Fortune books

No, it would not "scare away the devil". Nobody enjoys a good laugh better that Samael.
Nonetheless, should you avail yourself of a copy of Psychic Self Defense by the late Dion Fortune whose organization "The Society of the Inner Light" (also known as "The Fraternity of the Inner Light" until her friend Gareth Knight pointed out to her that she couldn't technically call an organization that accept members who are and has a leader who herself IS a woman, a "Brotherhood".), She had been a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn back in the day and studied under one its more notorious Founders the famous MacGregor Mathers whose book THE KABBALAH UNVEILED (an English translation of the KABBALAH DENUDATA by Christian Knorr von Rosenrath which is not Mathers' pseudonym as some sources tend to claim https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/knorr-von-rosenroth-christiandeg />Mathers used the name S. Rhiogail Mha Dhream on occasion but Rosenroth was a seoarate human.
Where was I goiing with this? Oh yeah, read Ms. Fortune's book PSYCHIC SELF-DEFENSE and you will find that humor and laughter certainly are helpful in case of psychic attack. She suggests Laurel and Hardy (if I remember right) I suggest going on-line and watching Llamas with Hats.
Anyway...informative film though not riveting. Parts are pretty scary and have been "sampled" for better known movies of the horror genre.

Evreyone Rushes To Call This Art..It's Boring Drivel..!...The First 13 Minutes A Tutorial In Title Cards..Then Actors Finaly Appear...By Then It's Too Late......Audience Has Left The Building....YUCK MUCK......Spare Yourself..!

This is an excellent film. I have no idea why it is classified as "Science Fiction/Horror". It is a DOCUMENTARY. Häxan is such an excellent documentary that it conscientiously cites its references for the various still images and scenarios shown. It is also a feminist film, displaying (for its time) a profound understanding of the tangles belief in (an evil form of) witchcraft produces; and giving new insight into the formula "damned if you do and damned if you don't". Someone here said the link between "modern" (ca. 1922) hysteria and historical witchhunts was incomprehensible, but I feel the analogy was clearly shown. The same curious traits, largely associated with female physiognomy and behavior, which fed the flames of the witch-hunters' madness gave way in the early Twentieth Century to Freudian diagnoses of "hysteria". Both led to the locking-up of women, although the more recent interpretation led less often to their immediate deaths.
I recommend viewers to adjust their screens to black&white (even if there is an historical basis for the tinting/"colourization", it is distracting from the composition and natural contrast of the scenes) and to select almost any classical music in their libraries to play as a background (although I have not heard ALL available DVD soundtracks, the ones I have heard were distracting).
Brilliant. Highly recommended.

i watched it a few days before halloween. it was a bit boring at first, but it becomes more interesting. i just don't understand the parallelism between the past-age witchcraft and modern-day hysteria. they're from very different worlds. still, i generally think it deserves a cult following.
by the way, SlomoG is right. the text is in swedish and not danish. i hope the original danish version still exists.

Thank-you for this picture. It is good for the sets, props, acting, costumes...so many things. I liked the end where they used "modern psychology" to explain away witchcraft. A good, must see.

This film suffers from being waaaaaaay to long. A quick edit couldn't hurt.
That, though, is the only flaw in this film. Watch it and enjoy!

Actually the intertitles are in Swedish and not Danish.

" Does anyone know how I can convert an MPEG4 to an MPEG 2 without destroying its quality, or easier still, download this as an MPEG2?
To convert it to MPEG4 use a software by VSO called ConvertXToDVD, it's easy to use. Do a Google search for it. The loss of visual quality from MPEG4 to MEPG2 will be very small, defiantly acceptable. MPEG4 is superior to MPEG2 (about 4 times better) for storage vs content. The visually best viewing moves available on this site are in MPEG4.

This is an excellent film, and an excellent transfer, but the selection of MPEG4 or MPEG4 leaves much to be desired. Does anyone know how I can convert an MPEG4 to an MPEG 2 without destroying its quality, or easier still, download this as an MPEG2?

As I stated interesting. But I must scold IA on
a techinical point. This film is not color but tinted. Tints were used in silent films to express a mood or the case Norferstu to said it for shots of horror or day or night shots.